Deploying Office 365 client applications with Windows Intune

Windows Intune software deployment capabilities can provide a solution for organizations who are looking to distribute Office 365 client software to their managed PCs. This blog article describes the steps involved to deploy Office Professional Plus 2010 and Lync 2010 to enrolled and provisioned Intune clients on Windows 7. This article is intended as an example of how this can be done, so the steps may need to be updated to accommodate changes in either Office 365 or Intune services. It does not cover topics such as deploying to Windows XP, upgrading from older versions of Office, or configuring Office applications to work with Office 365 online services.